Are you a jigsaw puzzle?
If you feel disintegrated, scattered, lack of enthusiasm, no flow of creativity, confused know for sure that you have become a jigsaw puzzle: A collection of fragments with no centre, no wholeness. You may be aware of it or not, but the centre of your life is missing, the centre that binds and guides your energy. The centre is the point around which your life moves, your life energy springs from your centre.
Osho has given tremendous importance to Hara as it is the source of life energy. Just by being aware of the Hara, concentrating on that point you will find a discipline arising in you. It comes naturally, it has not to be forced.
The more you are aware of the Hara, the less you will become afraid of life and death because that is the centre of life and death. Once you become attuned to the Hara centre, you can live courageously. Osho suggests a short meditation to develop the Hara centre. It can be done in the night when you go to sleep and also the first thing in the morning. Lie down on the bed and put both your hands two inches below the navel and press a little. Start breathing deeply. You will feel this centre coming up and down with the breathing. Feel your whole energy there as if you are shrinking and you just exist there as a small centre, as a concentrated energy. Fall asleep doing it. That will be helpful. Then the whole night the process of centring persists. In the morning, the moment you feel that you are coming out of sleep, wait, don’t open your eyes first. Again put your hands there, push a little, start breathing; feel the Hara.
Do this for five to 10 minutes and then get up. Amrit Sadhana is editor of Osho Times International. She facilitates meditation workshops based on Osho insights around the country and abroad.